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Tweak a few details, and the scene painted on The New York Times Op-Ed page last month could have been a cut from the movie about the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) occupation of Mass. Hall two years ago. “Students confronted picket lines, hunted for meals off campus, picked their way past uncollected trash and wondered when graduate-student teachers would return to class,” the piece read, describing a strike at a prestigious Ivy League university...
...comes to fringe benefits: in addition to its tuition assistance, it offers easy access to health insurance and free English courses on paid time. And in the wake of the Living Wage campaign, it’s keeping pace on lower-end salaries. But the concerns raised by PSLM remain salient for many of Harvard’s unionized employees, who fear losing their jobs to outsourced competition. Others complain that Harvard leaves them out to dry in the summer, when their services are not needed and they are left without work or unemployment insurance. Further, workers say, it?...
...years ago, PSLM ended their 21-day occupation of Mass. Hall when the University agreed to appoint a new committee to examine employee pay rates and other employment practices. Harvard implemented most of the committee’s recommendations, which suggested one-time pay increases for employees but no promise to continually augment wages...
Pressure from unions during the PSLM sit-in transformed the Bridge Program from a pilot program to a university-wide undertaking. It now boasts nine different class levels, from beginning literacy classes which work on phonics and spelling to an academic prep class designed to aid employees in getting the equivalent of a high school diploma. Classes meet twice a week for two hours, and run on Harvard’s semester schedule...
...CASV) cite PSLM’s example in attempting to get the word out about their opposition to the change in the University’s sexual assault policy last year. “We definitely did try and follow the advice of people who had been involved in PSLM, like how to contact the media and how to make press packets,” says Alisha C. Johnson ’04, a member of CASV...